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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at ... at this time of worry, when we have been struck by Tsunamis, Katrina ... should be at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. For more on what Saad

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  university, and win at the ISEF international level. Notice how I had none of ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me angry or sad. A bunch of the parents were very skeptical that you don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  or 5 study halls a day, they could get straight As and be at the top of ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  to snap these photos, I was placed right at the back of the ballroom ... laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  some of the world's more pressing issues (at least with regard to America ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  of the Amazon women. Hmm... amazon.com maybe? MAP: START HERE (at the ... . Let me know what you think of the puzzle. Too hard, too easy, too short, too long? And later tonight, get the exciting story of how I braved

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I smile a little at the family-unit-energy of everyone running around ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  here at MIT, as well as some of the incredible feats of engineering ... of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "What if I have a beard tan line?". At the end of the week though, the ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... that, I think, is the difference: there are so few tests at MIT that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  you decide to come here next year: most of the events at MIT have free ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  if I had one of these, my morning would have been different. 9:30 AM ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... of a boy and his trials with energy and entropy. Directed by John

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very ... classes with the same demographics of people that I would at almost any ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  since freshman year of high school, easily looking at my 6.006 psets and ... clue. Really all I know is that at the end of the day, I want to be ... of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  , used to get 'em Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em.” such ... some friends over iap (aka january at mit). one of the more awkward ... desires are currently a part of me and that, for now at least, that means

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... ) for an interview. By the end of the week, I had a UROP at Choi Lab. It ... mentioned it briefly at the beginning of this post, but Pika is an ILG behind

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... of students decided to begin their education this fall, even at a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020